The Plastics Processing Lab, located in 127 Burke, is a 10,300 square-foot, multi-million dollar state-of-the-art processing lab. The advanced and well-equipped lab is designed to provide practical, hands-on experience for students in the Plastics Engineering Technology and Polymer Science and Engineering majors. Nearly all major product manufacturing methods are represented in the lab.
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Injection Molding
 Arburg 370 66T |
 Arburg 370A 55T |
 Arburg 470E 110T |
 Arburg 570 |
 Boy XS 11T |
 Cincinnati Milacron Vista V120 |
 Demag 50T |
 Engel E motion |
 Haitain 90T |
 Krauss Maffei 100T |
 Milacron-Fanuc Roboshot s-2000i 165B |
 Nissei 220T vertical-vertical |
 Sodick GL30A-LP |
 Sumitomo 110T |
 Sumitomo SE100DU |
 Sumitomo SE100 |
 Toshiba EC45N |
Additionally, the Imflux unit and Trexel T-100 MuCell units are available to be added to some injection molding machines.
 Imflux unit |
 Trexel T-100 MuCell unit |
Blow Molding
 Bekum 206L EBM (extrusion blow molding) |
 Jomar 15T IBM(injection blow molding) |
Thermoset
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Thermoset Equipment
Carver Laboratory Press
Extrusion and Compounding
 Davis Standard 1 inch |
 Davis Standard 2 inch |
 Haake PolyLab OS |
 Intelli-Torque Plasti-Corder |
 Killion 1.5 inch |
 Killion 1 inch |
 Leistritz 27 twin screw extruder |
 Steer Omega 20 twin screw |
A film line for cast or blown films is also available.
 Cast film line for 1.5 inch Killion |
 Blown film line for 1.5 inch Killion |
Thermoforming
 Formech |
 Maac |
Auxiliary Equipment
Auxiliary equipment can be installed in line with some of the other equipment mentioned above. For specifics and whether certain auxiliary equipment will work with specific processing equipment, please use the contact form.
Thermolators (on Injection Molders)
 Advantage |
 ConAir |
 Mokon |
 Regiokas P160M high temperature unit |
 Single Temp |
Chillers
 Barber Colman (series 10) 1T |
 ConAir 1.5T |
 ConAir 1T |
 Single Temp 2.2 kW |
Pelletizers
 Bay Plastics Machinery |
 Scheer-Bay |
 Wayne |
 Steer |
Dryers
 Bry-Air 200 lb |
 ConAir 50lb |
 ConAir 10lb |
 ConAir |
 Dri-Air 200 lb |
 Dri-Air dual 150lb hoppers |
 Dri-Air 100 lb |
 Dri-Air 60 lb |
 Dri-Air 30 lb |
 Dri-Air 30lb |
 Dri-Air 20 lb |
 Maguire VBD (vacuum batch dryer) 30lb |
 Novatec 60 lb |
Water baths
 LabTech waterbath |
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Grinders
 Battenfeld 14-16 |
 ConAir model 280 |
 ConAir Viper |
 IMS SHarxx line RE-89 |
Pullers
| ConAir |  LabTech |
Gravimetric blenders
 ConAir TruBlend |
 Maguire microblendex |
Feeders
 Coperion K-tron feeder |
 Coperion K-tron feeder |
 Coperion K-tron feeder |
3D Printers
Four 3D printers are available for student use in the Plastics Processing Lab: the Ultimaker, the Ultimaker2 and the Ultimaker3.
 Ultimaker |
 Ultimaker2 |
 Ultimaker3 |
Advancing Research
Interested in any of the plastics processing equipment or need more details? Please complete our contact page.
